During the early morning hours of Tuesday Spalding County Sheriff’s Deputies blocked off a portion of Jackson Road near Bailey Jester Road and turned around all traffic. According to Sheriff Stewart this was done to protect the citizens traveling on that road while the Georgia State Patrol SWAT Team assisted investigators of the Sheriff’s Office with the execution of a search warrant.
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More than 100 members of the legal profession in the Griffin and Towaliga Judicial Circuits, friends and family gathered Aug. 15 at the Upson County courthouse to honor the late Tamara Jacobs Bell.
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Lamar County will host Henry County tonight at 7 p.m. at Trojan field for a pre-season scrimmage. Admission at the gate is seven dollars. You can get advance tickets for five dollars at the high school today until one o'clock.
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Angelo Ace, 51, died Wednesday, July 28 at his home on Aldora Street after a battle with cancer. Memorial services will be held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Antioch Baptist Church with Pastor Battle officiating.
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Friday Night Movie’s in the Park will begin at sundown. This month’s feature film is Hachi: A Dog’s Tale. This heartwarming true story is an American adaptation of a Japanese tale about a loyal dog named Hachiko. He teaches the local people love, compassion and above all unyielding loyalty. The film is sponsored by the Barnesville-Lamar County Volunteer Fire Department, Travel World, and Open Box Over Stocks. Concessions will be available at the event and the sponsors will have some activities for the kid’s before the movie begins.
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Georgia’s longest yard sale, Peaches to the Beaches, takes place this weekend March 12-13, all along US Highway 341. The nearly 250-mile yard sale will link buggy-making and peach-growing counties in middle Georgia to the beaches of Brunswick and the Golden Isles, with stops in nearly two dozen communities along the way.
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